Tutorial: Remove a Service Fabric cluster running in Azure
This tutorial is part five of a series, and shows you how to delete a Service Fabric cluster running in Azure. To completely delete a Service Fabric cluster you also need to delete the resources used by the cluster. You have two options: either delete the resource group that the cluster is in (which deletes the cluster resource and all other resources in the resource group) or specifically delete the cluster resource and it's associated resources (but not other resources in the resource group).
In this tutorial, you learn how to:
- Delete a resource group and all it's resources
- Selectively delete resources from a resource group
In this tutorial series you learn how to:
- Create a secure Windows cluster on Azure using a template
- Monitor a cluster
- Scale a cluster in or out
- Upgrade the runtime of a cluster
- Delete a cluster
Note
We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. To get started, see Install Azure PowerShell. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az.
Prerequisites
Before you begin this tutorial:
- If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account
- Install Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI.
- Create a secure Windows cluster on Azure
Delete the resource group containing the Service Fabric cluster
The simplest way to delete the cluster and all the resources it consumes is to delete the resource group.
Sign in to Azure and select the subscription ID with which you want to remove the cluster. You can find your subscription ID by logging in to the Azure portal. Delete the resource group and all the cluster resources using the Remove-AzResourceGroup cmdlet or az group delete command.
Connect-AzAccount
Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId <guid>
$groupname = "sfclustertutorialgroup"
Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name $groupname -Force
az login
az account set --subscription <guid>
ResourceGroupName="sfclustertutorialgroup"
az group delete --name $ResourceGroupName
Selectively delete the cluster resource and the associated resources
If your resource group has only resources that are related to the Service Fabric cluster you want to delete, then it is easier to delete the entire resource group. If you want to selectively delete the resources in your resource group, and keep resources not associated with the cluster, then follow these steps.
List the resources in the resource group:
Connect-AzAccount
Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId <guid>
$groupname = "sfclustertutorialgroup"
Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName $groupname | ft
az login
az account set --subscription <guid>
ResourceGroupName="sfclustertutorialgroup"
az resource list --resource-group $ResourceGroupName
For each of the resources you want to delete, run the following script:
Remove-AzResource -ResourceName "<name of the Resource>" -ResourceType "<Resource Type>" -ResourceGroupName $groupname -Force
az resource delete --name "<name of the Resource>" --resource-type "<Resource Type>" --resource-group $ResourceGroupName
To delete the cluster resource, run the following script:
Remove-AzResource -ResourceName "<name of the Resource>" -ResourceType "Microsoft.ServiceFabric/clusters" -ResourceGroupName $groupname -Force
az resource delete --name "<name of the Resource>" --resource-type "Microsoft.ServiceFabric/clusters" --resource-group $ResourceGroupName
Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
- Delete a resource group and all it's resources
- Selectively delete resources from a resource group
Now that you've completed this tutorial, try the following:
- Learn how to inspect and manage a Service Fabric cluster using Service Fabric Explorer.
- Learn how to patch cluster nodes running on Windows.
- Learn how to aggregate and collect events for Windows clusters and setup Log Analytics to monitor cluster events.